Posted by: Dale Eastman
« on: September 15, 2020, 10:10:46 AM »Quote
Me ➽ Would you care to discuss the points presented? ⛔
You ➽ Be happy to. Let's make sure that we both go into a conversation such as this knowing that if you assume the word "free" was never meant to be taken literally and to assume otherwise would make it a pointless discussion ⛔
Me ➽ David Hybertson In accordance with my procedure of challenging claims for validity:
Are you claiming you knew exactly what Francis Scott Key meant when he wrote The Star Spangled Banner?
Specifically when he wrote, and I quote:
"And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
Are you claiming that Francis Scott Key did not intend "free" to mean the Liberty fought for and won in the first civil war? A.K.A. The Revolutionary War? Yes it was the first civil war! Brits were fighting Brits.
Then there's Jefferson's words, IMO, right on point regarding Liberty:
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
So... Have you figured out that militia does NOT mean the national guard, nor the United States Army? The purpose of my challenge to your strongly implied claim that I don't know what "militia" means. ⛔
Typical. Somebody makes claims ⚠; I ask questions about the claims made �; I get crickets chirping.
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... When someone shows that they clearly have the understanding of a 5 yr old when interpreting "land of the free and home of the brave" it simply says to us that we do not have the time or the crayons that it would take to show you what a dumbass you are ....
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Me ➽ Would you care to discuss the points presented? ⛔
You ➽ Be happy to. [...] ⛔
The points I presented, that you agreed to discuss:
➽ United States Constitution, Amendment 2 states:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. [...] so I'll just sum up what the amendment means.
1. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is an individual right, just like the right of the people to engage in free speech, and right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.
2. The right to keep arms means the right to own and possess arms.
3. The right to bear arms means exactly that: The right to BEAR arms. The right to carry arms on or about one's person.
4. The militia referred to is citizens with their own arms, not members of the national guard of any state bearing the state's arms.
5. There are several reasons that the right to keep and bear is individual and essential.
5a. To kill tyrants.
5b. To kill invading armed forces.
5c. To defend one's life.
5d. To defend one's liberty.
5e. To defend one's property.
5f. To acquire food to stay alive. ⛔
Did you really think I wouldn't notice your attempt to change the focus of what you agreed to discuss?
➽ I posted an image with these words:
Land of the Free, Home of the brave. Then why won't the free and brave people answer my questions that prove they are not free? ⛔
You chose to ignore the points presented regarding what the term Militia means; Points presented in response to you claiming that I don't know what the term Militia means. Points for the purpose of discussing what the term Militia actually means in the second amendment.
My error for giving you the escape opportunity... But, I keep copies and I review dialogs.
Regardless, You chose to make the discussion about what "Free" means. Specifically, when you made a claim:
➽ the word "free" was never meant to be taken literally ⛔
So I quoted Francis Scott Key where the phrase "Free and Brave" came from:
"And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"
And then I challenged your claim by challenging you regarding your mind reading abilities of long dead Francis Scott Key to know what he meant when he wrote The Star Spangled Banner?
Would you care to discuss what "Free" means as used in the song: "the land of the free and the home of the brave"?
Would you care to discuss the points presented showing what the term Militia means?